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Sometime during the development of .net application on the local machine, you need to run a site using https. To run a website using https protocol an SSL certificate needs to be configured. This article will list all the steps of setting up an SSL certificate for an Asp.net website hosted on local computer IIS server.

Step 2: Right click on Sites node and then select the option Add Website as shown in below screenshot:

Step 3: In Add, Website window enter Site Name and then browse the location on the local machine where a website is present under Physical Path. In Binding section Select Type as https as shown in below screenshot. The default port for website running using https protocol is 443.

Step 4: In SSL certificate select IIS Express Development Certificate which is default certificate provided for running site using https in IIS as shown below. Click on Ok button.

Step 5: Now Right click on the newly added website then select option Manage Website-> Browse as shown in below screenshot:

So using the steps as mentioned above SSL certificate can be configured for a .net website hosted on IIS.